The Special Cell of Delhi Police has questioned around 25 journalists and contributors of the online news portal the NewsClick for a second time.
This questioning is in connection with a case registered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) the portal for showing Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh as not part of India but disputed areas. The portal was accused of peddling anti-India agenda in the country.
An officer said the investigation into the case is still on and no one has been given the clean chit so far.
On October 3 the Special Cell raided several locations connected to the website in Delhi and NCR and questioned about 46 people, including nine women journalists.
The police also arrested portal’s editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha and human relations head Amit Chakravarty and seized more than 300 electronic gadgets from the office of NewsClick and residences of its journalists.
“Since the arrest took place, everyone was called for the second round of questioning. About 25 of them have appeared so far,” said a police officer.
As per the Delhi Police’s remand copy which was submitted before the court on October 4 when it produced Purkayastha and Chakravarty, the analysis of the e-mails shows that Neville Roy Singham, Prabir Purkayastha, and Amit Chakravarty were in direct touch with each other and were found to be discussing how to create a map of India without Kashmir and to show Arunachal Pradesh as disputed area.
